Eddie Jones threatens England stars with axe despite flawless 2016

But Jones refused to draw satisfaction from the landmarks, with his focus instead trained on displacing New Zealand as the No 1-ranked team in the World.

England’s first ideal calendar year since 1992 has comprised an RBS 6 Nations Grand Slam and a Test series whitewash of the Wallabies in Australia. We wanted to work harder and get the players to aspire to be better.

“Every time you win a game it builds confidence and belief”. “We’ve had a bit of fun with it all, but the fun business really starts on Saturday when the players get stuck into each other”.

“We are progressing but we can’t get too ahead of ourselves”. But we are hell-bent on achieving that.

“The 2003 side is a much better side than we are”, Jones said. “We will play them when we get the opportunity and if that is 2018, we will play them in 2018”.

The win brings them equal to the all-time record for consecutive victories, a title they now share with Sir Clive Woodward’s 2003 World Cup winning outfit.

England got off to a hard start against Australia and had to withstand sustained pressure for the opening 20 minutes but ultimately outscored their visitors by four tries to two.

Australia’s opening try started from a scrum, which was ironic because the scrum was a hostile subject between the coaches in the buildup.

Rattling off the names of impressive debutants Reece Hodge, Dane Haylett-Petty, Samu Kerevi, Sefa Naivalu, Tom Robertson, Adam Coleman, Lopeti Timani and Nick Frisby, Cheika also said he expected to blood tourists Taniela Tupou, Izaia Perese, Andrew Kellaway and Jack Dempsey next year.

England was fortunate to trail by only three points at halftime but didn’t panic, and incredibly dominated the Wallabies in the second half so well that the visitors got out of their territory only twice.

“Eddie said ‘you can’t play any worse'”.

Michael Cheika’s Australia stand in the way and there has been a hostile build-up to the game from both camps.

Meanwhile Jones said he felt no special joy in beating Australia, labelling Saturday’s match as “just another game of Test footy”. “It’s just another game of Test footy”.

Australian Jones took charge of England after the disastrous home World Cup campaign of 2015, when defeats by Wales and Australia saw them exit at the group stage. “I’m very positive about the team”.

“We’re scoring tries this year that we wouldn’t have last year and if we keep doing that we’ll be OK”.

The former Test fullback highlighted the growing influence of playmakers George Ford and Owen Farrell as key to England’s winning streak of 13 matches.

“They play a pressure, conservative style and in Australia they scored a lot of tries off errors”.

Jones spent Sunday debriefing his players, who return to their clubs with clear instructions on areas for improvement knowing that any drop in standards will result in demotion from the Six Nations squad.

“The only danger for us is letting complacency set in”, Brown said.

“I don’t think the red card will have any impact on him, it is one of those unfortunate incidents – there was no malice in it at all”, added Robinson.